| The city is the arena of multiple singularities, packed densely with each intensely individual life living out its deeply personal destiny. |
| However, in the late 1960s Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking used global techniques to prove that singularities appear generically. |
| We describe the classification of del Pezzo surfaces of Picard rank one with smoothable quotient singularities. |
| The appearance of singularities in general relativity is commonly perceived as signaling the breakdown of the theory. |
| The algorithms that Taubin developed worked well even in the vicinity of cusps and other singularities. |
| We have taken care of finding feasible starting points and interesting classes of singularities where the initial development is less steep. |
